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HARRIET HARRISS Principal Lecturer in Architecture PhD, MA(RCA) Dipl(AA) RIBA, FRSA, FHEA Oxford Brookes, UK

Feminism as a

design tool

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Feminism designs with others in mind:

race, gender, language, class, (dis)ability, culture…

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Feminism teaches Activism

Disruption Radicalism

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Feminism takes a critical position

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Feminism concerns learning to design

beyond the masculine paradigm

(empathy collaboration, community and evolution, holism and versatility, negotiation and enabling,

emotion, experience and responsiveness)

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Feminism questions architectures influence

on social relations, society and community

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Feminism concerns designing beyond the

gender binary

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Feminism teaches ethics

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Feminism identifies the political

implications of design and planning

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Taken all together feminism: (1) exposes the problems in current practice/education system (2) defines a strategy for resistance/change (3)…[that] feeds forward into the future we want, not the one we inherited

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